Wild Seed – Wild Flower

Wild Seed – Wild Flower is the debut full-length album by American singer Dionne Farris. Having found success for her performance on the song "Tennessee" by the alternative hip hop group Arrested Development, Farris, rather than continue with Arrested Development, made a solo record with members of the band Follow for Now, David Ryan Harris and Billy Fields.^[1] The album title was inspired in part by the Octavia E. Butler novel.^[2] The lead single, "I Know", peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1995.

"I Know" was the only hit from the album, but Tom Demalon of AllMusic wrote that the album's "charms run much deeper" than the "percolating and infectious" hit single.^[1] However, critic Brent Mann expressed the opposite view, stating that the other songs "lacked energy and direction" and in one case turned "plodding and ponderous."^[9]

Adapted from the liner notes of Wild Seed – Wild Flower.^[10]

• Dionne Farris – vocals (1–10, 12, 13, 15), all vocal arrangements, string arrangements (5)
• Tim Heintz – keyboards (1, 6, 13), acoustic piano (6, 9), synthesizers (9, 13), Rhodes electric piano (13)
• David Kahne – keyboards (1)
• Ezra Greer – programming (3)
• Carl Young – keyboards (4), saxophone (9)
• Steven Twyman – organ (5)
• David Frank – keyboards (8), synthesizers (8)
• Billy Fields – keyboards (9)
• David Ryan Harris – guitars (1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 15), drum programming (1, 5), backing vocals (1, 7, 10, 15), keyboards (5), drums (5), arrangements (10)
• Skitch Lovett – guitars (2, 6)
• Torrell Ruffin – guitars (3, 4, 9, 13)
• Bruce Gaitsch – guitars (6)
• Paul Barrere – additional slide guitar (15)
• Milton Davis – bass (1, 2, 7, 15)
• Randy Jackson – bass (1, 3, 13)
• Lonnie Marshall – bass (4, 6, 9)
• Parish Wintersmith – drums (1, 13)
• John Mitchell – drum programming (1, 2, 13)
• Ju Ju House – drums (3, 6, 7, 9, 15)
• Anthony Johnson – drums (4)
• Pete Escovedo – percussion (2, 5)
• Jeff Haynes – percussion (3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15)
• DJ Nabs – scratches (2), turntables (3)
• Dennis Poole – sample clearances (3)
• Madeline Smith – sample clearances (3)
• Suzie Katayama – cello (5, 7)
• Joel Derouin – violin (5, 7)
• Russell Mullen – trumpet (9)
• William Galison – harmonica (13)
• Terrance Shelton – backing vocals (3)
• Leesa Richards – backing vocals (7)
• David Alan Grier – voices (11, 14)
• Melody – voices (11, 14)
• Moe – voices (11, 14), all instruments (12)

• Michael Simanga – executive producer, management for Posact, Inc.
• Dionne Farris – executive producer, producer, liner notes
• Randy Jackson – executive producer, producer (1–7, 9, 13, 15)
• Milton Davis – producer (1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 15)
• David Ryan Harris – producer (1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 15)
• David Frank – producer (8)
• Allen Abrahamson – engineer, mixing (2–7, 9, 11–15)
• Danny Kopelson – engineer, mixing (10)
• Don McKinzie – engineer
• Jess Sutcliffe – engineer, mixing (8)
• Michael H. Brauer – mixing (1)
• Thom Cadley – assistant engineer
• Bruck Dawit – assistant engineer
• Mark Endert – assistant engineer
• Mike Fisher – assistant engineer
• Chris Herles – assistant engineer
• Greg Mull – assistant engineer
• Sheila Starks – assistant engineer
• James Williamson – assistant engineer
• Stephen Marcussen – mastering at Precision Mastering (Hollywood, California)
• Mary Maurer – art direction
• Doug Erb – design
• Cheri Gray – front cover design
• Sandra Hendricks – front cover photography
• David Roth – back cover photography
• Melvone Farrell – make-up